Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Haruki Murakami

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

John Dryden

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Mayer

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

John Mayer

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Lydon

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John L. Phillips

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Katharine Hepburn

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Leighton Meester

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Lawrence Tierney

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

John Kenneth Galbraith

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Joy Page

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Julianna Margulies

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Jules Renard

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Karl Jaspers

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Julie Walters

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Mariella Frostrup

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Nicole Kidman

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Paul Ryan

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Rachel Maddow

My life is better with every year of living it.